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The men in this still are formally dressed and despite the summer season they wear three-piece woollen suits consisting of jacket, waistcoat and trousers. Their outfits are accessorised with homburg hats and two men hold walking sticks. Walking sticks had been a favoured male accessory since the eighteenth century, although they declined in fashion during the twentieth century.
The West Sussex Record Office hold business records relating to Messrs. Lintott and Co., who were walking stick makers of Witley, Surrey. The company was founded in 1858. They bought the cutting rights of local woods and had their own plantations. The business operated until 1968 and the West Sussex Record Office has documents dating from the 1920s.
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